GIS Technician - Eldorado National Forest

The Great Basin Institute, in cooperation with the USFS, is recruiting 1 GIS Technician to perform data management, geospatial analysis, and cartographic and map design and production projects within the USFS Region 5 Eldorado National Forest (Placerville Ranger District) in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. These projects all serve the Basin & Range Forestry program’s greater mission of helping the USFS in their critical goal of improving forest resilience in the face of worsening climate conditions and increased wildfire threats. The work that you will do directly improves the quality of these forests helping ensure they continue to thrive for generations to come.

Tasks under this project shall include:

• GIS Project Support including Data Management
   
  • Use USFS corporate Geographic Information System Esri technology (ArcGIS 10.8.2; ArcGIS Pro 3.2 or newer)
  • Requires the use of USFS corporate and other agency Geographic Information System data to perform GIS analysis and produce maps for USFS projects.
  • Data capture, data attributing, editing, plotting, and reporting as required.
  • Completes and updates metadata records for GIS projects.
  • Collects geospatial and resource data using manual and technology assisted methods including GPS and mobile computing technology.
  • Incorporates field collected and remote sensing data into corporate geospatial data sets using established procedures.
  • Updates geospatial data sets for multiple disciplines including recreation, silviculture, wildlife, hydrology, engineering, fire, etc.
  • Updates existing Python scripts.
• Geospatial Analysis
  • Uses standard operations and scripted processes to manipulate and analyze geospatial data to support multi-resource analysis in support of planning for a variety of projects, including fire recovery and fire restoration.
• Cartographic and Map Design/Production
  • Uses GIS software and cartographic tools to create simple thematic and reference maps, following appropriate standards.
  • Reads and understands metadata to determine appropriate use.
  • Uses and understands project map templates
• Training
  • Conducts informal training and provides technical assistance to GIS software users in the development, storage, retrieval, and analysis of data.